Don't get me wrong Keike, shiftwork is not a walk in the park for DH either. He's pretty hands-on when he's up so being up at 10ish then starting work at 4.30pm and getting home at 1am is a pretty long day for him too. It's just that he misses the busiest times at home. He often works seven or eight days straight and if he's gotten home at 2am, I'm not really going to make him get up at 6.30am to the girls on his day off so I can have a sleep-in.

I just wish his start times for earlies and lates were the same so we could figure out what works best for us.

At the moment, I'm thinking that next year we should put both DDs in childcare for a couple of days per week. DD1 is in childcare already but DD2 isn't and I'm really beginning to feel that I need some time to myself either to work or study. Or just do housework without two munchkins making a 5 minute job take 30 minutes.